From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrea Crotti Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: window local var? Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:43:50 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1283772789-sup-3909@nixos> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283798755 4707 80.91.229.12 (6 Sep 2010 18:45:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 18:45:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 06 20:45:52 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OsghR-0005X1-Ov for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:45:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47397 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OsghR-0000Y8-7i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:45:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42325 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Osggn-0000X4-MW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:45:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Osggl-0007Al-C7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:45:08 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:41419) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Osggl-0007AT-5W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:45:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Osggi-0005Bs-8Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:45:04 +0200 Original-Received: from xdsl-89-0-29-117.netcologne.de ([89.0.29.117]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:45:04 +0200 Original-Received: from andrea.crotti.0 by xdsl-89-0-29-117.netcologne.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:45:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: xdsl-89-0-29-117.netcologne.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:tig3Ky0SCuOpO7jBdH+6S61gOI8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:74901 Archived-At: Marc Weber writes: > Hi list, > > I used Vim in the past heavily - meaning I'm still learning about the > "Emacs" way of doing things. Vimpulse is doing a great job for me :) > > I've learned about emacsclient. > > However one of the most used actions I run is > - grep > - gnu id utils > - kind of compiler (eg make) > > And they all depend on a current directory (most of the time) > > So when starting Emacs, can I create a window local var keeping the > directory in mind I started this Emacs window from? > > Then I could create custom functions switching current directory before > running grep, make, etc. > > If there are no window local vars - Is there a kind of window id (for > both X and terminal) I could use to associate a directory with? > > Marc Weber When running those things in the current buffer directory is what you normally want.. A fast way to use your own path could also be just doing M-x grep -nH -e "string" /path/ where also the /path/ has the smart completion.